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Machinery for Compressio n or of Fue l' or other Consolidation of Blocks Material.

Patented June 22,1875.

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MachInery-for Compression or Conso||, dation of Blacks of Fuel or other MaterIaI. No. 164,834, Patentedlune22,1 875.

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Machinery fur fiompressiun or Consolidation of Blocks of Fuel or oth erMateriaI.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

FELIX JOHN HAMEnOF LONDON, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT lN MACHINERYFOR COMPRESSION 0R CONSOLIDATION 0F BLOCKS 0F FUEL 0R OTHER MATERIAL.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 164,834, dated June 22, 1875; application filed May 29, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX JOHN HAMEL, of 7 8 Avenue Road, Regents Park, London, in the county of Middlesex, England, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented or discovered new and useful Improvements in Machinery for the Compression or Consolidation of Blocks of Fuel or other Material; and

' I, the said FELIX JOHN HAMEL, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereofthat is to say- This invention has for its object improvements in machinery for the compression or consolidation of blocks of fuel or other material. The plan is to have a horizontal circular rotatin g table containing molding-cavities perforated completely through, to the number of 6, 9, 12, or any multiple of three, with one bed to every three cavities. The beds are equidistant from each other under the table, so that as the table revolves each cavity will, in succession, come over a bed. There is, also, one upper or descending plunger or die to every three cavities exactly over the bed, above or in which is also placed a lower or rising plunger, raised by a lever acted upon simultaneously with the descent of the upper plunger by a descending plug passing through a hole in the table, so that when a cavity charged with materials for compression comes over the bed the descending plunger may descend into the cavity, and squeeze or consolidate the material into a block between it and the rising plunger. Likewise there is one expeller to every three cavities, working simultaneously with the descending plunger, and entering the next cavity to expel the block carried by the motion of the table from the place of compression, so that simultaneously with the compression of each block its predecessor will be expelled, and ready to be carried away. Thus two, three, or more blocks are made at the same time. The beds may be fixed surfaces beneath the rotating table without rising plungers, if preferred.

In order that my said invention may be most .a feeder from a hopper above.

fully understood and readily earriedinto effect,

around the post I); and it is rotated step hy step. Aplan' of the table D is shown at Fig-2. a n n a a a a a a are molding-cavities in the table. Bis one of the beds, upon or in which is a lower or rising plunger or die, between which and an upper or descending plunger or die the fuel or other similar material is compressed in one of the molding-cavities, the lower or rising plunger being actuated by a lever, d. i is a strong iron frame, which is controlled by theguides g, and moves up and down upon the post I) by the action of toggle-levers or other suitable machinery, worked by steam or other motive power. The casting i, with the table D beneath it, is shown in plan at Fig. 3. It carries three upper or descending plungers, f ff, and three expellers, k k k, and three plugs,

h. (Not shown in Fig. 3; butone of which, it,

is shown in the quarter'section, Fig. l.) The expellers are similar to the plungers, except that they are longer, so as to pass completely through the molding-cavities; and each plug is also longer, so as to pass through the holes m, Fig. 2, and operate upon the lever d, which raises the lower or rising plunger c. Above each of the places where the three moldingcavities are shown uncovered l Z Z, in Fig. 3, is (Not shown in the drawing, but the position of which is over each of the three cavities l Z Z.)

Each motion of the table places three of the molding-cavities beneath the feeders, and the fuel descends from the hoppers into them, The next motion of the table places the filled cavi-' ties under the plungers f f f, and in their passage any superfluous portion of the material is swept off the cavities by the lower edge of the feeder, or a scraper, as they each pass beneath, leaving the material in the cavity level with the surface of the table. At the same time that the upper or descending plungers f f f descend the lower or rising plungers e e e ascend to meet them by the action of the plugs h upon the levers d. The double action of the i the machine, and they fall upon endless bands worked by drums, or running on rollers, or

both, but not shown in the drawings, which bands conduct the blocks away or upon small hinged tablets o riding upon a spring or lever, p,equal only in resistance to a smaller weight than the block of fuel, tippingit up in its descent, so as to slide the block onto a smooth inclined plane, down which it may slide to the endless band, to be carried away; the chief object of this being to guard against injury to the newly-made block in its fall from the molding-cavity when expelled, and to facilitate its removal, as shown in Fig. 4.

Havingthns described the nature of my said invention, and the manner of performing the same, I would have it understood thatI claim 1. The combination of the table rotated step by step, and provided with a series of moldingeavities, beds arranged beneath the table, the frame, moving up and down above the table, and controlled by guides, the series of descending plungers carried-by said frame, and the series of expellers likewise carried by the frame, these members being constructed and operating as set forth, whereby the fuel supplied to each mold is successively compressed therein and expelled therefrom, while in different molds the operations of eompressin gand expelling are carried on simultaneously, and a block discharged by each expeller at every descent of the plunger and expeller-frame.

I 2. The combination of the table, rotated step by step, and provided with a series of moldingcavities, beds arranged beneath the table, a series of rising plungers provided with levers, the frame moving up and down above the table, the series of descending plungers carried by the frame, and the series of plugs, also carried by the frame, operating upon the levers of the rising plungers through holes in the table, these members being constructed and operating substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the table provided with molding-cavities, the expellers, working in said cavities to expel the blocks, and the hinged tablets, these members being constructed and operating substantially as set forth, whereby the blocks, asthey leave the molds, are deposited upon the tablets, and automatic ally delivered therefrom, by the tilting of the tablets.

F. J HAMEL. Witnesses:

G. F. WARREN, WILMER M. HARRIS, Both of No. 17 Gmcechmch street, London. 

